U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during travel to Washington, D.C., from Palm Beach International Airport, Florida, U.S., November 30, 2025. REUTERS/Anna Rose Layden

WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will host the leaders of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday to sign a peace agreement, the White House said.

The meeting is expected to build on a U.S.-brokered peace deal reached in June and signed by the two countries' foreign ministers, and an economic framework agreed on in November.

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group staged a lightning advance in eastern Congo this year, seizing the region's two largest cities and raising fears of a wider war.

(Reporting by Steve Holland and Doina Chiacu; Editing by Chris Reese)